Day One: Bamboo Shoots and Bunny Sausage

Thursday, July 15, 2011

Due to a thunderstorm Wednesday evening, the house lost all power, so we'll just mesh Wednesday and Thursday together in one post. Plus, Wednesday was a short day so there isn't too much to talk about. Anyway, thanks for joining us, and here we go!

Wednesday morning and afternoon went smoothly and we were on the airplane in no time, thankfully. We spent the flight watching "I Am Number 4", coloring in Hilary's Spongebob coloring book, making faces at the baby in front of us, and mouthing lyrics along to Glee, Owl City and the Temptations. A flight well spent, methinks. We arrived home to find that the power was still out, so we wandered through the house with flashlights until we found our room.

After waking up at 12:30 this afternoon (heh, whoops), Hilary and I took showers (separately, mind you) and got ready for the short day ahead of us. Whilst waiting, we spent a few minutes petting the horses. We also spent a great deal of the time wrangling our way through the thick wall of bamboo that separates the yard from the street. Hilary almost ran in to a gigantic spiderweb, but because of her supernatural spidey senses, she was able to avoid the situation.

Later, we went to the farmer's market with my stepdad, Jonathan. Hilary and I tried a plethora of foods, including: a rabbit, lamb and goat sandwich, homemade peach ice cream, goat cheese, jerky and rabbit sausage. The rabbit, lamb and goat sandwich = YUM. I was a little worried at first, because I never thought I would consume a cute little bunny, but it was quite delicious. The peach ice cream was refreshing and super tasty, as was the goat cheese. We got some black pepper jerky for the road, but unfortunately no rabbit sausage; they were all sold out. :( On the bright side, we got to see some cool lightning strikes headed our way.

We did a brief tour around the Auburn University campus, taking a look at all the pretty brick buildings and the historic stuff. We took a sad look at the Oak trees that the evil Alabama fan poisoned and continued on our way.

After goofing off at Walmart and eating some yummy chilidogs, Hilary and I watched The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader. We may have drooled over Edmund a bit, not gonna lie. And now here we are. Hilary's checking facebook, singing to Michael Buble, and I'm slaving over this wonderful blog.

It's now 1:15 AM, so I'm out. Thanks for reading!

--Sarah

What can I say? We're goofballs.